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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κάστωρ (kástōr, “beaver”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kás.tɔːr/ → /ˈkas.tor/ → /ˈkas.tor/
Proper noun
Κᾰ́στωρ • (Kástōr) m (genitive Κᾰ́στορος); third declension
- Castor
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “Κάστωρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Κάστωρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Κάστωρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- “Κάστωρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,005